Playing With Your Food

Learn dozens of ways to set up and encourage your child to play with their food so that they eat new and different foods! Playing with food is one of my favorite strategies as an occupational therapist. Learn how to let your kids play with their food in creative and beneficial ways that can help them eat more and learn new skills. Find ideas for seek and find, stacking, stamping, silly faces, food models, plate portraits, and more.

Playing with food is an important step in learning to eat. Find out fun ways to incorporate play during your mealtimes to help reduce picky eating. Engage all five senses with these 16 sensory food play activities to help children expand their range of foods they eat.

In this blog, Nicola Pratt, S. Sensory food play is a great way to introduce new foods to children because it involves all of their senses. By engaging in sensory activities, kids can become more comfortable with the look, smell, touch, and even sound of new foods.

We love to make food fun. It helps introduce kids to new foods in a fun playful way. Here are 18 ways to play with food.

ENJOY! Learn how playing with food can help your child explore and accept new or non-preferred foods. Find out 7 fun and easy ideas to encourage food play at home, from sensory bins to food puzzles.

Even just by playing with a new food and learning its texture, smell and feel, they're being exposed and will be more likely to try it in the future, even if they aren't willing now. Create a colorful food art display at your next party or event! Involve children in the creation of an engaging display that will lead people to the snack table. "Don't play with your food" is out! "Having fun with your food" is in! Why? Many years of research have shown us that children learn to eat the same way they learn any other new skill; by playing and having fun.

In our blog we share 20 ways you can have fun with food, no preparation needed!

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